Sinclair Lewis Quotes - Page 4

• It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

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  Mind, Might, Satan

  "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 4, 1949.

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• I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me - I actually took my teachers seriously!

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  Christian, Teacher, Believe

  "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.

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• So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

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  Waiting, Revolution

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• The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8

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  Girl, Witty, Kissing

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• Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?

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• He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

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  People, Misanthropy, Persons

  Sinclair Lewis (2011). “It Can't Happen Here (搶救美國)”, p.1276, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

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  Contentment, World, Misery

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.210, Penguin

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• Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

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  Writing, Scientist

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• Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

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  Fog, Gossip, Cynical

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.387, Penguin

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• A los escritores se les obliga a ser seguros, educados, obedientes y estériles. En señal de protesta, hace unos años rechacé la elección al Instituto Nacional de las Artes y las Letras, y ahora debo rechazar el Premio Pulitzer.

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  Art, Years, Letters

  Letter declining Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1926)

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• El juego (béisbol) era una costumbre de su clan, y daba salida a los instintos homicidas y de toma de partido que Babbitt llamaba "patriotismo" y "amor al deporte".

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  Deportes, Béisbol, Juegos

  Sinclair Lewis (2008). “Babbitt (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.270, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

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  Men, Years, Thousand

  "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 33, 1949.

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• Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

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  Thinking, Romance, Fine

  Sinclair Lewis (2012). “The Job: An American Novel”, p.44, The Floating Press

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• What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

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  Sin, Wells, Unheard

  Sinclair Lewis (1924). “Main Street”, p.425, Lulu.com

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• A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

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  Baseball, Party, Pockets

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.19, Penguin

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• If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

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  Lying, Healing, Fighting

  Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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• His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

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  Names, People, House

  Babbitt ch. 1 (1922)

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• It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

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  Old Friends, Tragedy, Affection

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.

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  Country, Art, Literature

  Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sinclair Lewis (1931). “Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize”

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• That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

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  Men, Numbers, Really Great

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

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  Insane, Dozen, Dull

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• Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.

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  Winter, Seasons, Industry

  Sinclair Lewis (2008). “Main Street”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

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  Sex, Clerks, Twenties

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.237, Penguin

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• There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

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  Conversación

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

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  Cost, Facts, Prohibition

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.91, Penguin

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